Recording MIDI Live What Tempo?

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:58 pm

sometimes I just want to play without being constrained by a metronome. What tempo should Cubase be? If I make it really fast it would be more accurate right? Is there a down side to this? Could it use more CPU that way? I have always wondered ahbout this.

Post by **hubird** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:05 pm

On 2004-12-16 20:58, braincell wrote:
If I make it really fast it would be more accurate right?

more accurate to what?
are you talking about recording midi notes? or audio?
I don't get it really

fra77x · Post by **fra77x** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:15 am

When i record midi notes with my axon midi guitar (6 channel midi data) i find it best to record at a slow tempo while playing slow... Then i raise the tempo. In general it doesn't make any difference

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:52 am

Given a midi resolution, obviously a faster tempo is theorically more accurate, as much as this term can stretched to fit the midi protocol....

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:13 pm

BPM tempo wont do too muvh difference, as lon as quantizising is turned off.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:44 pm

Hubrid, I meant MIDI.

Alfonso, that's what I figure.

I think internal synths can perform better than external, yes? I mean without the special midi interface steinberg for cubase and emagic for logic. I have emagic but with cubase so I don't get the increased midi speed.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:01 pm

It's not faster like that, it's actually slower. Like PDC (Plugin Delay Compensation) delays audio trakcs to match up with the slowest ones.

You don't need to set higher bpm, set a higher MIDI resolution (PPQN) instead.